Corners Quotes - Page 8

• I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.

  Margaret Atwood

  Tree, Pretending

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort because important people, vocal people, or great numbers of people agree with us. Nor do we derive comfort if they don't.

  Warren Buffett

  Numbers, People, Important

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• The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Light, Oedipus

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces". Book by Joseph Campbell, 1949.

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• I want to see you. Know your voice. Recognize you when you first come 'round the corner. Sense your scent when I come into a room you've just left. Know the lift of your heel, the glide of your foot. Become familiar with the way you purse your lips then let them part, just the slightest bit, when I lean in to your space and kiss you. I want to know the joy of how you whisper "more

  Rumi

  Kissing, Voice, Feet

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• I hope he has them chasing blue squirrels all day!" Graystripe hissed to Fireheart as they headed toward the corner where a few pieces of fresh-kill remained from last night. "But there aren't any blue squirrels," Fireheart mewed in confusion. Precisely!" Graystripe's amber eyes gleamed.

  Erin Hunter

  Eye, Night, Squirrels

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• But I didn't frame it; I put into an envelope and sealed it and stuffed it far back into a corner drawer of a filing cabinet. It's there, just in case one of these days I start to lose her. There might be a morning when I wake up and her face isn't the first thing I see. Or a lazy August afternoon when I can't quite recall anymore where the freckles were on her right shoulders. Maybe one of these days, I will not be able to listen to the sound of snow falling and hear her footsteps.

  Jodi Picoult

  Morning, Fall, Filing Cabinet

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.423, Simon and Schuster

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• Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men. ~ Gandalf to Pippin

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Two, Long

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.742, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Good days, they come around the oddest corners.

  Colum McCann

  Good Day

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.71, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. "Deep down," the dream-victim had said, "You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before.

  Dean Koontz

  Dream, Heart, Dark

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• Don't push me I've got a corner at my back I've nowhere to go except over you.

  Henry Rollins

  Over You, Nowhere To Go

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• Satan was crouched in the corner of his office, playing a gameboy, 'Die alien scum' he was saying feverishly.

  Eoin Colfer

  Office, Scum, Aliens

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• In a very little time they got to the corner of the field by the side of the pine wood where Eeyore's house wasn't any longer. 'There!' said Eeyore. 'Not a stick of it left! Of course, I've still got all this snow to do what I like with. One mustn't complain.

  A. A. Milne

  Snow, House, Complaining

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.17, Egmont UK

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• Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sadness, Laughing, Machines

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: The Original Scroll”, p.206, Penguin UK

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• Rohan's fingertips drifted with stunning delicacy over her throat, behind her ear, pushing into the satiny warmth of her hair. "You are an interesting woman Amelia." Gooseflesh rose wherever his breath touched. "I can't f-fathom why you would think so." His playful mouth traced the wing of her brow. "I find you thoroughly, deeply interesting. I want to open you like a book and read every page." A smile curved the corners of his lips as he added huskily, "Footnotes included.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Book, Thinking, Hair

  Lisa Kleypas (2007). “Mine Till Midnight”, p.85, St. Martin's Press

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• Sometimes I see things, I think. Out of the corner of my eye, taunting me, and then it’s gone. And dreams. Such horrible dreams. What if something terrible happened to me? What if I am damaged?" The rain is a cool kiss on my sleeve as I link my arm with hers. "We’re all damaged somehow.

  Libba Bray

  Dream, Rain, Eye

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.335, Delacorte Press

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• Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.

  John Berryman

  Lying, Two, Rooms

  John Berryman (2014). “The Dream Songs: Poems”, p.18, Macmillan

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• Q.Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A.Indeed I do think that I do. Q.Such as what? A.The crying, almost screaming, need of a great worldwide human effort to know ourselves and each other a great deal better, well enough to concede that no man has a monopoly on right or virtue any more than any man has a corner on duplicity and evil and so forth. If people, and races and nations, would start with that self-manifest truth, then I think that the world could sidestep the sort of corruption which I have involuntarily chosen as the basic, allegorical theme of my plays as a whole.

  Tennessee Williams

  Thinking, Men, Duplicity

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.84, New Directions Publishing

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• There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.

  Arthur Machen

  Strange, Forgotten, Obscure

  Arthur Machen (2016). “The Great Return: Machen's Collection”, p.1, VM eBooks

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• She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation.

  Nora Roberts

  Heart, Joy, Salvation

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• The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap And seeing that it was a soft October night Curled once about the house, and fell asleep

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Night, Fog

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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• Daemon had written: "What do you do when she asks a question no man would give a child an answer to?" Saetan had replied: "Hope you're obliging enough to answer it for me. However, if you're backed into a corner, refer her to me. I've become accustomed to being shocked.

  Anne Bishop

  Children, Men, Giving

  Anne Bishop (1998). “Daughter of the Blood: The Black Jewels Trilogy”, p.282, Penguin

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• My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away -

  Emily Dickinson

  Gun, Owners, Loaded

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.318, Harvard University Press

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• Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.

  Nancy Werlin

  Love You, Mean, People

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• The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.

  Stephen King

  Dark, World, Neon

  Stephen King (2016). “Firestarter”, p.564, Simon and Schuster

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• Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as it does in parting with dear objects. The humid gaze does not wander around holding back a tear, as if it wished to carry away in it a trembling reflection of the abandoned spot; but in the best corner of our hearts we feel pity for the things which we did not bring to life with our breath, which we hardly noticed and are now leaving forever. This already dead iventory will not be resurrected in one's memory.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Memories, Heart, Reflection

  Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Scammell (1963). “The gift”

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